Anarchive: scale model #01
I have begun the testing of what my final doctoral artwork may become (slated for the fall of 2019). The proposed installation is titled Anarchive, a medicinal garden to translate the memory of future natural history. It will ultimately be an extension of a post-hurricane Puerto Rican Casita rooted in my previous entry: Superdecompression of Colonial Memory...
In this case, I have doubled the prototype to be both my daughter’s playhouse, and as winter nursery and hothouse for our koloniehave in Denmark.
It is lifted off the ground with a 7x7cm pressure-treated pine infrastructure, the body is a hack of a an old recovered playhouse. The roof is of 10mm clear poly-carbonate plates mounted in a geometry calculated with my parametric Site-Specific Greenhouse Superstructure plug-in. It follows the median solar azimuths of Spring-Sommer, Sommer-Autumn, Autumn-Winter, as a way to optimize the solar panels, but more importantly to talk with my daughter about where the sun is around the year.
The work is a continuation of my practise-based research. Some samples are:
Immediate Archeologies Two (2009)
Tear do Terreiro / Looming Greenhouse (Nonsphere XIII) (2014)
Living Archive Course Greenhouse (2014)
Earthscore Specularium (Nonsphere XV) (2015)
Collapsed Greenhouse (Nonsphere XVI) (2016)
[Paintings inside the Leghus were gifts for Freia’s birthday by visual artists Alexander Höglund and Richard Krantz]
